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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Quotes
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Beware the ides of March. | Act 1, scene 2: Soothesayer to Caesar |
For let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honor more than I fear death." | Act 1, scene 2: Brutus to Cassius; willing to accept death rather than dishonor Rome. |
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. | Act 1, scene 2: Cassius to Brutus; they can control their destinies. |
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous. | Act 1, scene 2: Caesar to Antony; too ambitious, wishes him to be more content. |
Three parts of him is ours already, and the man entire upon the next encounter yields him ours. | Act 1, scene 3: Cassius to Casca; about winning Brutus completely to the conspiracy. |
And therefor think him as a serpent's egg which hatched would as his kind grow mischieveous, and kill him in the shell. | Act 2, scene 1: Brutus to Himself; about Caesar: anticipate and destroy evil before it's to come. |
No, not an oath. If not the face of men, the sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse-if these motives be weak, break off betimes, and every man hence to his idle bed. | Act 2, scene 1: Brutus to Cassius primarily. |
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers...and for Mark Antony, think not of him, for he can do no more than Caesar's arm when Caesar's head is cut off. | Act 2, scene 1: Brutus to Cassius; suggesting that Antony will not be a threat. |
But when I tell hime he hates flatterers, he says he does, being then most flattered. | Act 2, scene 2: Decius to Cassius; getting Caesar to the capital. |
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once. | Act 2, scene 2: Caesar to Calpurnia. |
But I am constant as the North Star, of whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament. | Act 3, scene 1: Caesar to conspirators (Brutus, Metellus & Cassius); Caesar will not be moved. |
If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer- not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. | Act 3, scene 2: Brutus to the crowd; Reason why he had in killing Caesar. |
For Brutus is an honorable man. | Act 3, scene 2: Antony to the crowd; leads to sarcasm. |
Mischief, thou art afoot, take thou what course thou wilt. | Act 3, scene 2: Antony to himself; reavealing how calculating and intelligent he really is. |
There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. | Act 4, scene 3: Brutus to Cassius; take advantage of the fact their army is stronger at this time, and if they wait, they will become weaker. |
...thou shalt see me at Phillipi. | Act 4, scene 3: Caesar to Brutus. |
Time is come round, and where I did begin, there shall I end, my life is run his compass. | Act 5, scene 3: Cassius to himself; day of his birth will also be the day of his death. |
Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will. | Act 5, scene 5: Brutus' last words. |
This was the noblest Roman of them all. | Act 5, scene 5: Antony to Octavius (about Brutus); Brutus killed Caesar not out of envy, but out of his love for Rome. |